Giacchino is an American composer, his work spans several different mediums; movie scores, television and video games. Some of his best work includes; Mission Impossible, Star Trek, The Incredibles and most recently the Academy Award winning ‘Up’ soundtrack.
“Giacchino wrote a character theme-based score that the filmmakers felt enhanced the story of the film. At the beginning of the movie, when young Carl is in the movie theater watching a newsreel about Muntz, the first piece of music heard is “Muntz’s Theme”, which starts out as a celebratory theme, and echoes through the film when Muntz reappears 70 years later. “Ellie’s Theme” is first heard when she is introduced as a little kid and plays several times during the film in different versions; for instance, during the sequence where Carl lifts his house with the balloons, the theme is changed from a simple piano melody to a full orchestral arrangement. Giacchino has compared the film to opera since each character has their own theme that changes in shift during a particular moment in the story.” – wiki
Tempo: one of the most noticeable things about the soundtrack is the constant change in tempo that helps change the mood dramatically. This is a very common and important method used in all movie soundtracks. Here’s a fantastic example:-
Found Sound: Another fantastic technique that Michael Giacchino and some of the guys at Pixar researched and used to great use in the soundtrack of their movie was found sound. Like most films by their studios, a great deal of time and effort goes into finding sounds by using house hold objects and basically anything they can find. Here’s an interview with the sound engineer discussing the Wall-e film:-
Mood and Sound Design: Michael’s music bleeds emotion from every note. But this is no mistake. Giacchino takes great care in every track making sure he is presenting the characters well. Mood is very important in music, well, successful movie soundtracks anyway. Here’s a fantastic interview of Michael Giacchino talking about mood/sound design:-
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